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Listed and lost: Cultural World Heritage sites in the UK
This summer, the UK gained a new World Heritage site in the form of the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales, but also saw Liverpool demoted from this status. CA considers these recent changes, and takes a tour of other UNESCO-protected sites within the UK.
On 21 July this year, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee met virtually to vote on the future of one of the more than 1,100 sites inscribed on their World Heritage List. Voting was split, but the decision was clear, with 13 to five members ruling that Liverpool should be struck from the register. It was a dramatic step. To-date, only two other sites have been similarly deleted: Oman’s Arabian Oryx Sanctuary (inscribed in 1994, and removed in 2007 after the government reduced its area by 90%), and the Dresden Elbe Valley in Germany (inscribed in 2004, removed in 2009 following the construction of a four-lane bridge spanning the valley close to Dresden’s historic city centre). Liverpool’
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